Monday, December 08, 2008

Water colour workout.

Well...here I am after a prolonged layoff. I've had a viral infection which (similar to influenza), completely knocked any desire to work on the head.But today I've felt well enough to do some work. I did mention that I had a few projects which i was looking forward to launching. well, the first is in response to my readers comments about my water colour paintings. now, bearing in mind I haven't done any painting for around 10 years and before that nearly 20 years...I've got a lot of catching up to do technique wise. so I've tried a few simple little washes here just to get the feel of the paint and water.

i have to admit that I'm very impatient when it comes to painting..i want it to look perfect immediately and i hate making mistakes....something that rarely happens with my dot work! but I've got to learn to experiment and try out things .....I'm perhaps confining myself to a too smaller size and need to 'breakout'....the one hard and fast rule I am going to set myself is that i will complete each picture in only one day!

4 comments:

Preeti Shenoy said...

Hey Niall--I love your water colours much more than your pointillism pics! They are so vibrant!You haven't lost your touch at all!

Niall young said...

PS..I'm glad you like them..but really, they're just little excercises...I'd forgotten how to get a wash to work...tomorrow i'm going to try soemthing on a larger scale.

Julie Kwiatkowski Schuler said...

Glad to hear that you are on the mend! Happy watercoloring.

Shachi said...

These are brilliant....waiting to see your larger scale work :)